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I got that, but how come people say its for more experienced C++ programmers, when you say its a good beginner book?

Grok? Got any Ideas?

Dude, you know you CAN put 'Grok, Got any Ideas?' in your original post, there is no need to spam...

On another note... Does Visual C++ .Net even exist? Or is it either Visual C++ and C#? Or did Mitosis create his own language again?

Quote from: j0k3r on November 19, 2003, 06:36 AM
Dude, you know you CAN put 'Grok, Got any Ideas?' in your original post, there is no need to spam...

On another note... Does Visual C++ .Net even exist? Or is it either Visual C++ and C#? Or did Mitosis create his own language again?

Well I have heard of visual C++.net so I guess it is real.

Yes, there was a new version of Visual C++ that was part of the Visual Studio .NET suite. You'll more commonly see it referred to as Visual C++ 7, however.

Quote from: Mitosis on November 17, 2003, 07:16 PM
Still waiting for Grok....lol

You're too young for me to evaluate your talent based on your skills.  So it's hard to come up with a suggestion for you specifically.  If you get confused easy, I can suggest a computer programming career that will make you rich, but won't require much ability to write new code.  You will have to learn how to edit other people's code.

COBOL.   (obligatory 'ewwwwww' from gallery)

90% of COBOL programmers are over 55 years old and retiring soon.

75% of all existing business code is written in COBOL.

You do the math.  This is a bigger problem than Y2K was even media-inflated to be, and programmers etched out $250k/yr salaries to declare themselves Y2K specialists.

I dont want to do like editing code, I do want to be a programmer but Im not quite sure which is a good book to start off with.

Quote from: Mitosis on November 23, 2003, 04:02 PM
I dont want to do like editing code, I do want to be a programmer but Im not quite sure which is a good book to start off with.

I believe what Grok is trying to suggest is, if you plan on obtaining a career in some type of programming field Cobol is a certain possibility. The fact is companies need them for all their business work, and since your so young compared to others, some of these languages your seeing now could be obsolete when your ready to go through with college. Even modifying and improving code with Cobol could make you more money then writing your own programs with VB, in the end its entirely up to you.

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Depending on which language you choose, there will be some type of introduction to the language, or at least some type of community to give you help with. First find something thats going to suit your tastes, then proceed to the next step.

Well Im going to start off with Visual Basic.NET and DevCpp. My mom said for Christmas she will buy me VB.NET, and two good starting books.